Opinions

How good are you at storytelling?

“Stories stick to your brain.” – Tim Denning There’s great power in storytelling, but few of us have learned the art. We tell stories every day, but who among us calls themselves a “storyteller?” Says Lisa Christen of forbes.com: “Telling a story is something we’ve done daily for most of...

Eat or be eaten: Where friends are foes and foes are friends

Most of us are familiar with the term food chain. Generally speaking, a food chain describes a linear sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem. More realistically, though, these chains cross, twist, and overlap, forming webs that can be far from linear. One great example is the food chains,...

A new chapter begins for The Daniel Island News

Mid-October, 70 degrees, golden hour on the Daniel Island Ferry sunset cruise. It will be difficult to top last Wednesday night's gathering of Daniel Island Newspaper staff, family, and friends. And it will be difficult to top the newspaper's 22-year leadership under former owner Sue Detar. Sue...

Are you stuck in a rut? Here’s how to turn it around

If you’re going through something, just know that you’re gonna come out on the other side. You’re going through it – you’re not stuck there forever. - Tina Knowles I read somewhere that in the early days of the Alaska Highway, tractor-trailer trucks would make deep ruts in the gravel as they...

How good are you at appreciating your strengths?

“If you think your skills are run-of-the-mill, dime-a-dozen, you don’t realize what others would love to learn from you.” – Liane Davey How well do you know your strengths? It’s a sad but confronting reality. As humans, we think far more about weaknesses than our strengths. It’s called the...

Remembering a person’s name is a powerful leadership tool

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." - Theodore Roosevelt I read a story of a local sportscaster doing radio coverage of an Indiana high school football game from the stands, who used a chart listing the names, numbers, and positions of the...

DI Library Society seeks your help via needs survey

The Daniel Island Library Society is looking at ways it can help improve the Berkeley County Library on Daniel Island. If you will give us 10 minutes of your time, we will give you the opportunity to help plan the future of our library. When the library opened its doors in 2007,...

Local newspapers keep communities strong

Strong communities don’t just happen. They rely on connection – residents knowing what’s going on, businesses reaching the customers who keep them open, and citizens having the facts to make good decisions. Local newspapers provide that connection in ways no other source can. In...

Are you a generous leader?

The story goes that one day, a beggar by the roadside asked Alexander the Great for alms. The man was poor and wretched and had no claim upon the ruler, no right even to lift a solicitous hand. Yet the emperor threw in several gold coins. A courtier was astonished at his generosity and...

Ever feel like you're stuck in a well with a bull moose?

"How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing. - S. Truett Cathy The other week, a bull moose somehow managed to fall into an abandoned well in a forested area of Maine. A team worked for about five hours to free the animal, as initially the landowners thought...